Chapter 34

"Where it's supposed to be ... in my hot little hand. Mother, I'm the Princess now. You are out," Vee said. Her voice was vindictive and authoritarian.

Junior and The Wanzor looked at each other. As one they turned to the newly fifteen year old girl and said, "Who are you and what have you done with our Vee?"

"You old hags ... get out of my life!" she said, "I'm running this show now." She wound the watch and disappeared.

The Wanzor and Junior looked shocked, "Who was that?" Wendy Wanzor asked.

"Damned if I know," said Junior, "But it certainly wasn't one of us."

She formed her bubble.

"Where to?" asked Wendy.

"Where she asked me to go before she performed that trick ... Pentwater." Junior said, as the Gypsy splashed down, along with 200 acre-feet or 65 million gallons of Bodensee water ... the German lake barely noticed. The water level dropped about 1 inch.

However, Pentwater Lake raised more than four inches. The excess rushed out the channel taking with it the Lake Constance symbiotic parasite that, by 2110 destroyed 99% of the Dreissena polymorpha, the Russian freshwater Zebra Mussel that had so invaded the Great Lakes. Of course, the destruction of the Zebra infestations spelled the end of the polished vibrantly colored and expensive button and bead industry that had put Detroit Michigan back on the map as an industrial city.